Man arrested after late night SWAT standoff near Milwaukie

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A man is in custody following a SWAT standoff at a home near Milwaukie late Tuesday night, authorities said.

According to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office, just after 9 p.m., deputies, along with Milwaukie police officers, responded to reports of a man firing a gun inside a home.

When authorities arrived, they said they found a large group standing outside the home on Southeast Monroe Street, in unincorporated Clackamas County.

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The group told deputies that they were residents at the home and that they fled when one of their roommates, Rian Keith Pittman, 35, began threatening them with a semi-automatic handgun, yelling for them to get out and firing off rounds in the home…

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